“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
This was an apt picture to put with this news. Because the “some sexuality & nudity” is totally Jean & Robert. No other relationship Oppenheimer had was as passionate.
This allows me my second in the “Jean x Robert” series. 🤣 First here.
From the excellent book, “An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women In Robert Oppenheimer’s Life,” by Patricia Klaus and Shirley Streshinsky:
“He had celebrated his thirty-ninth birthday only a month before. Jean was twent nine; they had known each other, loved each other, for seven years now. Even when she wouldn't-_couldn't--marry him, he continued to love her. (Pg154)
…In the months after Jean's return from Washington, she would have guessed that Robert's frequent trips out of town had to do with his new role in the war effort. Jean was not the kind of woman who left things unsaid. They were lovers and confidants. They knew each other too well not to explore what might be, and that would include how much they wanted or needed to be in each other's lives. (Pg 143)
That he made the effort to see her, not often but consistently, indicated he was conflicted. For Jean, the questions became: How strongly did she feel abou him And did it matter that he had a wife and child?
About the imminent future, Robert would have given Jean some oblique hints.
He had taken a leave of absence from the university and would be leaving Berkeley, but he couldn't say where he was going, or how long he would be gone. It was the same story thousands of young men were telling the people they loved as the country girded for war.
Jean asked to see him before he left, and he said yes, he would see her to say goodbye.” (Pg 144)
"You know, Lenny Bruce said there are never enough ‘I love yous.’ And that has stayed with me through every season. I think I’ll carry it with me, right to that last gasp. So that’s the [takeaway] for me."
Luke Kirby on what he has taken from playing Lenny Bruce [x]
Succession 4.10 “With Open Eyes”
Karolina! ❤️❤️
I’m building hype for Jean x Robert early. 😉 (Because you know Florence & Cillian will have insane chemistry…)
From the excellent book, “An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women In Robert Oppenheimer’s Life,” by Patricia Klaus and Shirley Streshinsky:
(pages 137-138)
“TOO OFTEN HISTORY ERASES THE trenchant moment; no one knows what Robert said the first time he saw Jean either before or after Reno, if he told her he was to be married, if he confessed that he was about to become a father, if he tried to explain anything.
Some of the conversation between Robert and Jean can be inferred by what was not said. He did not say, "I cannot see you again." He did not say that his marriage would exclude her from his life. He did not say that he no longer loved her.
And much later, when asked if, after he married Kitty, his relationship with Jean had become "fairly casual,” he answered no, it would be wrong to say his feelings for her were casual; there was always deep feeling when they saw each other. And they did continue to see each other. Sometimes he would drive to the hospital to see her, or to her home in the city. They had been together at New Year's in 1941.
Once they had met at the elegant bar in the Mark Hopkins hotel, the "Top of the Mark" at the very peak of Nob Hill, one of the highest points in the city. It was a poignantly romantic place, often fog-shrouded. During the war, the Top of the Mark would become legendary as a place where young men in uniform took their girlfriends or wives to say goodbye…
We need more pictures, or they’ll be lots of repeats when I share more portions from the book 😉
i love when they draw a carrot on top of the carrot cake just to remind you this aint no ordinary fuckin cake youre dealing with
Almost the entire front page of the Sunday Summer Movie section dedicated to him…
Before the end of his 47th birthday, I had to post
some favorite photos….
Target is trying to protect their employee's from the vicious attacks by the conservatives.
“Protect the employees” doesn’t truck when they’re removing things from their online catalogue too. They have fulfillment for online only orders. It would have sucked, but it would have been understandable given the conservative psychos out this year.
What’s not cool is a business that has publicly supported queers, made a huge part of their recruitment and retention ABOUT queer rights, including recognition of all marriage before most companies did and including trans surgeries as part of the standard healthcare plan like any other procedure, now backtracking that support. That’s why Target doing this feels like a bigger slap in the face to a lot of people than say Walmart, which gives lip service to pride or Michaels, who started including a Pride section much more recently.
And tbh. As much as it’s about Target, it’s not really about Target. It’s about the idea that it’s better to be seen as a group that’s profitable than a group that’s worth steamrolling. And Target just very publicly announced that supporting queers is less profitable/worth it to them.
Our man needs to get his Lindsey Buckingham biopic lined up, stat
I miss them 😭😭 I adore this Tommy, don’t get me wrong, i love when he is angry and determined but this is the best Tommy. The real Tommy.
Makes me smile every time i watch this, how excited she gets and runs to him.
This is my ultimate favourite scene. She literally runs to him to greet him and tell him about her successful day. Tommy had a horrible day, but he’s perfectly content to come home to his rambling wife who is talking things that should feel insignificant to him after the day he’s had. “Should I ask you how your day was like a good wife? “No”. He doesn’t want a good wife, he just wants her. Just caresses her, patiently listens to her. Content to just be. When she excitedly jumps on him after he gives her the sapphire, he just falls backwards. He’s used to it. I love them ❤️
